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Reconstructing Tradition

Advaita Ācārya and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism at the Cusp of the Twentieth Century

By: Rebecca Jane Manring

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Reconstructing Tradition

Advaita Ācārya and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism at the Cusp of the Twentieth Century

By: Rebecca Jane Manring

Reconstructing Tradition explores the devotional Hindu Krishnaite revival of the 15th and 16th centuries and its persistence into modern times through an examination of one of its principal figures, Advaita Acarya. He was the subject of several texts, and Manring considers all of them in terms of changing historical, social, and sectarian contexts.Rebecca Manring considers the role of hagiography in one school of Bengali Vaisnavism against the backdrop of regional religious history, examining the ways in which Advaita Acarya followers designed and used his life story for political and religious purposes.

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0231129548

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The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya

Three Hagiographies

By: Rebecca J. Manring

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The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya

Three Hagiographies

By: Rebecca J. Manring

Rebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement's putative founder, Caitanya, and is believed to have caused Caitanya's advent by ceaselessly storming heaven, calling for the divine presence to come to earth. Advaita was a scholar and highly respected pillar of society, whose status lent respectability and credibility to the new movement. A significant body of hagiographical and related literature about Advaita Acarya has developed since his death, some as late as the early twentieth century. The three hagiographic texts included in The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya examine the years of Advaita's life that did not overlap with Caitanya's lifetime, and each paints a different picture of its protagonist. Each composition clearly advocates the view that Advaita was himself divine in some way, and a few go so far as to suggest that Advaita reflected even greater divinity than Caitanya, through miraculous stories that can be found nowhere else in Bengali Vaisnava literature. Manring provides a detailed introduction to these texts, as well as remarkably faithful translations of Haricarana Dasa's Advaita Mangala, Laudiya Krsnadasa's Balya-lila-sutra, and Isana Nagara's Advaita Prakasa.

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Reconstructing Tradition

Advaita Ācārya and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism at the Cusp of the Twentieth Century

By: Rebecca Jane Manring

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Advaita Ācārya and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism at the Cusp of the Twentieth Century

By: Rebecca Jane Manring

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Reconstructing Tradition

Reconstructing Tradition

The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya

The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya

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Reconstructing Tradition

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